Scattered Notes

Stefano Mapelli's weblog

Migrating from WF 3.0/3.5 to WF 4.0

A full set of documents have been released at the beginning of the year to suggest migration...

Author: esseemme Date: 09/27/2010

Prevent date/time synchronization in a Windows Virtual PC virtual machine

If you need to prevent date and time synchronization between a Virtual PC 2007 virtual machine and...

Author: esseemme Date: 08/24/2010

Claims-Based Identity and Access Control

Interested in learning about claim-based identity and how you can leverage it to implement access...

Author: esseemme Date: 08/02/2010

Mapping of Microsoft Office 2003 toolbar and menu functions to Microsoft Office 2010

Moving from the Microsoft Office 2003 suite to the latest Microsoft Office 2010? Having a hard time...

Author: esseemme Date: 08/02/2010

Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4

If you need the very latest Windows SDK, you can get the entire ISO file here. If you prefer the web...

Author: esseemme Date: 07/08/2010

Download the C# 4.0 Language Specification

Time to update your knowledge of the C# language! :-)Get your copy of the C# 4.0 Language...

Author: esseemme Date: 04/29/2010

Ramp up your development skills

Ramp Up is an interesting initiative I discovered today that may help you quickly build your...

Author: esseemme Date: 04/13/2010

MSDN Magazine digital edition now in PDF format

Last year I noticed that the MSDN site was getting behind in providing the CHM (compiled HTML)...

Author: esseemme Date: 04/13/2010

Get ready for Visual Studio 2010!

Final release of Visual Studio 2010 is getting near and you need to get ready for it! :-)First of...

Author: esseemme Date: 04/13/2010

TechNet Chopsticks videos

Microsoft Belux (Belgium) is hosting lots of what I think to be very interesting TechNet videos....

Author: esseemme Date: 04/01/2010

SQL Server 2008 R2 for Developers Training Kit

An updated version of the SQL Server 2008 R2 development training kit with over 100MB of videos,...

Author: esseemme Date: 02/28/2010

Development material for Windows 7, .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010

For all devs interested in the very latest Microsoft software development technologies there are two...

Author: esseemme Date: 01/26/2010

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 virtual machines

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 virtual machines are available...

Author: esseemme Date: 12/27/2009

"Microsoft Architect Insight Conference 2009" presentations and recordings

Videos and presentations of the 19 technical sessions that took place in May 09 in London during the...

Author: esseemme Date: 12/26/2009

BizTalk project fails at being created

It seems that Visual Studio 2008 updates may break BizTalk projects creation. To fix this situation...

Author: esseemme Date: 11/17/2009

Evaluate Biztalk 2009

If you are in the process of evaluating the Biztalk 2009 (the Microsoft platform for EAI, B2B and...

Author: esseemme Date: 10/31/2009

Run Wireshark on Windows 7 x64

Today I tried installing the latest version of Wireshark (version 1.2.1 rev 29141) on my Windows 7...

Author: esseemme Date: 09/11/2009

Free ebook on Microsoft virtualization technologies

Microsoft is offering for free "Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions, 2nd edition", a...

Author: esseemme Date: 08/03/2009

Windows Server 2008 R2 Developer Training Kit

Over 400MB of hands-on-labs, demos and presentations in the "Windows Server 2008 R2 developer...

Author: esseemme Date: 07/31/2009

"Threading in C#" free ebook

You can get a pretty much complete ebook on threading using the C# language from here (the link for...

Author: esseemme Date: 05/14/2009

Free "Illustrated C# 2008" ebook

RedGate is offering for free download of the ebook "Illustrated C# 2008" (730 pages) from Apress. Go...

Author: esseemme Date: 04/08/2009

All MIX09 videos available online

MIX is the Microsoft conference for designers and developers who build innovative web sites. At MIX,...

Author: esseemme Date: 04/01/2009

"Jit n Run" free ebook on ASP.NET development

RedGate (the well known software house that makes a few exceptional SQL Server tools) has published...

Author: esseemme Date: 03/26/2009

.NET Framework: adding a separator to a context menu

To add a separator menu item to a context menu in a .NET Framework application, you simply have to...

Author: esseemme Date: 03/25/2009

Install the loopback network adapter on Windows 7

To install the Loopback Network Adapter you need to run the "Add Hardware Wizard". However control...

Author: esseemme Date: 02/26/2009

14 lessons to get you started in C# and .NET

On programmersheaven.com you can download a 338 pages long PDF ebook that can help you get started...

Author: esseemme Date: 02/26/2009

Keyboard, mouse, webcam and headset drivers for Windows 7

If you are trying out Windows 7 you might want to download specific keyboard, mouse, webcam and...

Author: esseemme Date: 02/14/2009

How to download the .NET Framework's source code

Microsoft's .NET Framework's source code can be downloaded via Visual Studio 2008 on a per-need...

Author: esseemme Date: 01/14/2009

Want to learn C#?

If you are looking for a quick ebook to introduce you to the C# programming language you might want...

Author: esseemme Date: 01/10/2009

Application Architecture Pocket Guides from Patterns & Practices

The Patterns & Practices team has recently released 4 application architecture pocket guides...

Author: esseemme Date: 12/10/2008

PDC 2008 session videos online on Channel 9

If you could not make it to PDC 2008 (Professional Developers Conference held in October 27-30 in...

Author: esseemme Date: 11/04/2008

Seeing 4GB of memory on 32-bit Windows Server 2003

I have been using Windows Server 2003 standard edition as a workstation OS on my laptop for sometime...

Author: esseemme Date: 10/11/2008

"TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows" free ebook updated to Windows Server 2008

The "TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows" ebook (560 pages) updated to cover Microsoft's...

Author: esseemme Date: 10/06/2008

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V white papers and ppts

There is lately a growing number of white papers and presentations available on Windows Server...

Author: esseemme Date: 10/05/2008

SQL Server 2005/2008 driver for PHP

If you are into writing PHP websites, you should know that you can use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or...

Author: esseemme Date: 09/21/2008

Guide to improve Windows Vista performance

Microsoft has released a 14 pages long guide to help improve performance of the Windows Vista...

Author: esseemme Date: 08/17/2008

Videos and slides of .NET developer events in the UK

Video registrations of .NET developer events that have taken place in various cities in the UK can...

Author: esseemme Date: 08/15/2008

FrontPage Server Extensions on Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008?

If you need them go and download the installer here.

Author: esseemme Date: 08/13/2008

Learn Microsoft Expression products

If you want to learn any of the products that go under the Microsoft Expression umbrella, you should...

Author: esseemme Date: 08/13/2008

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1

Download Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 here and and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 here. If...

Author: esseemme Date: 08/12/2008

SQL Server 2008 is RTM ... finally!

SQL Server 2008 is finally available in its RTM release. That is a great news. The bad news is that...

Author: esseemme Date: 08/07/2008

VS2008 Integration Services Project error: Failed to save package file .... with error 0x8002801D "Library not registered."

If when creating a Visual Studio 2008 project of type "Integration Services Project" you get a...

Author: esseemme Date: 08/05/2008

BigInteger in .NET

For a small personal project I've had to look for an implementation of a big integer, a class...

Author: esseemme Date: 07/08/2008

Starting out with SharePoint development

If you are starting out with WSS/MOSS development, as I am, you might be interested in downloading...

Author: esseemme Date: 06/27/2008

Newbie to coding? Want to do some .NET development?

If you are starting out with writing code and want to try your hand at .NET development, the first...

Author: esseemme Date: 06/15/2008

VC++ CRT vs OS CRT

Read this excellent blog post about how to link the OS CRT (C Runtime Library) instead of the ever...

Author: esseemme Date: 05/31/2008

Enterprise Library gets to 4.0!

Enterprise Library in its 4th edition is now available for download here. This is the final version...

Author: esseemme Date: 05/16/2008

Windows command reference ebook

For anyone who frequently uses Windows shell commands, this ebook will probably become a precious...

Author: esseemme Date: 04/10/2008

Office Open XML file format made it to become an ISO standard

Read the story here.

Author: esseemme Date: 04/02/2008

Unsplitting a VPC virtual hard disk

As we know files on FAT32 file systems can't go beyond 4GB in size. This will, for example, cause...

Author: esseemme Date: 03/13/2008

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